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Patented May 30, I899. s. scnwlAnz.

BELT HOLDER (Application filed Dec. 24, 1898.)

INVENTOH BY ATTOHNEYS..

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON SCI-I\VARZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO' HYMAN GA LLERT, 'OF SAME PLACE.

BELT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 626,101, dated May 30, 1899.

, Application filed December 24, 1898. Serial No. 700,254. (No model.)

To all whom, it may. concern: larged at one end for the entrance of a but- Be it known that I, SOLOMON SCHWARZ, of ton and narrowed at the other end for the the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, passage of the shank of the button. The top in the county and State of New York,have.inand bottom side walls of the slot, near the 5 vented a new and Improved Belt-Holder, of wide end thereof, are curved outwardly to which the following is a full, clear, and exact form jaws D adapted to engage the buttondescriptiou. I head, at the inside thereof, at the top and The object of the invention is to provide a bottom, as is plainly indicated in Fig. 2. A new and improved belt-holder designed for tongue D extends longitudinally in the rear 10 holding a belt in position on trousers orother portion of the slot and from the wide end of garments on which it is to be used, the holder said slot toward the narrow end thereof, and being arranged to prevent the belt from slipsaid tongue is formed with a hump or lug D ping out of place and at the same time allow adapted to snap into'the central recess in a the necessary movements of the Wearers body button E, as is plainly indicated in Fig. 2. 15 without binding or injuring the garment or The button E is of the usual kind and is sethe belt. cured to the garment F at the waistband,

' Theinvention consists of novel features and and for mens trousers the buttons generally parts and combinations of the same, as will be used for the Suspender-ends will answer the fully described hereinafter and then pointed purpose. For ladies waists separate but- 26 out in the claim. tons are employed at the rear ends of skirts; A practical embodiment of myinvention is but in this case the holder D is placed in a represented in the accompanying drawings, vertical position, as indicated in Fig. 4, and forming a part of this specification, in which has longitudinal movement on the guideways;

similar characters of reference indicate cor-. otherwise the construction is exactly the 2 5 responding parts in all the views. sameas above described in reference to Figs.

, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im- 1, 2, and 3.

provement as applied to amans belt. Fig. Only one holder is illustrated as attached 2 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the to the belt; but it is evident that any desired same as applied on a garment, the section benumber of such holders may be applied to the 3o ing taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig.3 is belt at places corresponding to the buttons an enlarged transverse section of the same on the garment. on the line 3 3 in Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is an in- In using the belt the operator simply slips side view of the improvement as applied to a the holder in a longitudinal direction to enwomans belt. I gage the button with the holder D in the man- 3 5 On the inside of an ordinary belt A is sewed ner above described, so that the jaws engage or otherwise secured a strip B of leather or the edge of the button and prevent up-andother suitable material, and on this strip is down movement thereof and-a like movearranged a longitudinally-extending guidement of the belt, and the tongue D locks the Way (J, preferably formed of two parallel button and holder together to prevent lon- 40 wires extending a suitable distance from the gitudinal movement of the holder, but allows face of the strip B'to penetrate with their the slide or holder to move longitudinally ends the strip and be clenched on the-back with the button on its guideways. Thus of the strip, as indicated in the drawings. when the wearer bends his body he does not On the guideway O is mounted to slide lonstrain his trousers at the waistband, as the 5 gitudinally a holder D, preferably made of buttons with the slides or holders D can readsheet metal in the form of a plate having ily move in a longitudinal direction on the turned-over top and bottom edges fitting on guideway C, and hence'all undue strain on the wires of the guideway, so as to allow the the buttons is prevented and at the same plate to slide on the guideway. The plate is time said buttons remain in proper position I00 50 formed with a slot D between the two Wires on the garment.

forming the guideway, and said slot is en- The slide or holder D readily fits any but ton on a garment, as for specially-shaped nal guidcways thereon, a holder in the form 10 buttons the slot in the holder can be changed of a plate and having bearings for sliding on accordingly. said guideways, said plate being formed with Having thus fully described my invention, a slot, jaws, and a tongue, all arranged sub- 5 I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters stantially as shown and described.

Patent SOLOMON SCIIYVARZ. A belt-holder comprising a strip adapted \Vitnesses: to be secured to the inside of the belt, Wires THEO. G. I'IOSTER,

secured to said strip and forming longitudi- EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL. I 

